Photo by Bill Stokes
By Bill Stokes
Kickass, the doorstop dog, agrees with the keeper that there are not many occasions that cannot be improved by a piece of pie, and if it is baked and served at one of the three Norske Nook locations in Wisconsin there is a spiritual quality to the event. Such was the case as the keeper and Phyllis made a DeForrest Norske Nook pie stop.
The keeper’s history with Norske Nook goes back to his Chicago Tribune days when there was only the original Osseo store just beginning to attain widespread pie fame. Somehow word got out at the Tribune that the keeper was going to do a story about the small-town pie sensation, and at least a half dozen fellow Tribune staffers demanded that the keeper bring them a Norske Nook pie, which he did. There was a significant deposit required on the pie tins, and to this day the keeper remembers that his pie patrol was pretty much a losing proposition for him.
But all in the name of pie as a personal treat, and a token of enjoyable sharing among friends: blueberry for the keeper and sour cream raisin for Phyllis.
Is there any way a “Pie Department” could be created to improve on the current government chaos? Not likely under the existing MAGA “bakers.” Maybe after the midterms when the Dems are in the pie baking kitchens.
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